No more raw for now.
The raw feeding thing hasn’t gone as well as I hoped it would. After a spectacular start the first night, it gradually went downhill and ended with a bout of explosive diarrhoea this morning. Poor Bryan. We thought he was just whining for attention last night in his crate; it turned out he really had to go. And go he did. The first order of business (pun fully intended) this morning was to give him a bath and to clean and disinfect the crate, which looked like a bomb had gone off inside. K had taken him downstairs twice between 3am and 5am (he was working late) and Bryan refused to poop, and then the next thing we know, we wake up to a crateful of crap. Sigh.
His last dump was at 11 this morning and he hasn’t had to go since then. I don’t know why his stomach can’t seem to take to raw. By all accounts, as a carnivore he should be eating and digesting raw meat like a pro. I don’t think he has a chicken allergy per se, since his kibble contains chicken meal, but there’s something in it that doesn’t sit right with his tummy. Perhaps adjusting to raw and coping with the after-effects of vaccination (he got his final puppy shots last Friday) is just too much for his little system to manage at the same time.
So no more raw for now. I’ll let him recover and then very slowly transition him to a better quality kibble. He deserves to eat better food than ANF Puppy. And then maybe, just maybe, we’ll dip a toe into raw feeding again.
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Poor Bryan. It probably is due to his shots – I know they upset my fully grown girl’s tummies for several days.
Hope he is feeling better soon!